Man: 'I just murdered my mother'

2:49 AM,
Feb. 26, 2014

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Cincinnati Enquirer

When police officers fatally shot a man carrying an "older weapon" - with a bayonet attached - that confronted them in Walnut Hills Monday morning, they had no idea the weapon was not loaded.

"There was not any ammunition present for the weapon," said Assistant Police Chief James Whalen at a press conference Monday afternoon. "The officers, of course, had no way of knowing that at the time."

Officers were responding to a stabbing on Lincoln Avenue at about 5 a.m. Monday. While en route, police learned the stabbing could be a homicide with an armed suspect still in the house, Whalen said. ...